Competence Management - Meeting The Needs Of Your Company
Competence management aims at using optimally and developing the competencies of employees, that is their ability to put in practice their knowledge, experience, know-how according to the goals of the corporation they work for. Competence management is relatively new field in human resources but has been increasingly recognized and implemented within firms over the past few years and is widely seen as essential for the achievement of a company's objectives.
Management coaching will help you install a competence management program, which can only work if management is completely on board and cooperative. It is their job, after all, to evaluate every employee's skills to establish their competencies so that they can be measured against the company's needs. If you doubt your company's ability to use competence management, consultants can help you. Although this will cost a bit more, the added expense will be worthwhile.
To make use of the employees' abilities and to mobilize sufficient number of them, you need to first know the competencies required for carrying out a particular task. One of the aims of business coaching is to help employees understand the importance of competence management and enthuse them to become involved in it.
Employees will thus quickly understand for what task their competencies are needed and what knowledge they need to gain to perform other tasks and get ahead in their careers. The employees will therefore realize by themselves what kind of training they need to take, and there will be no more training needs analysis for your human resources management.
Let us suppose you want to know your employees' competencies or you want to gauge how skilled they are. Before resorting to professional help, you can deploy some of the other tools available. For example, you can develop and use a form that lists the capability of each employee. The details from the forms can be entered into a centralized database accessible by every one and you can also circulate the competencies required for ongoing tasks.
Competency management is the best way to manage the human capital of your company and will also give you great return on investments. It is a also a way to get the employees involved and interested in their job, by offering them a chance to participate actively in the fulfillment of your company's objectives.
The aim of management coaching is to upgrade the abilities of employees by training them to execute various management tasks effectively. Similarly, competence management seeks to match the knowledge and skills of employees to the needs of the tasks. It also helps employees realize what type of skills they need to acquire to progress in their careers. Through business coaching, employees can be made to realize the importance of managing competencies and to become involved in the process. While the organization learns to manage its human capital in the best way possible, its employees become more interested in their jobs and how they can work towards the organization's objectives.
Published July 20th, 2007
Filed in Business, Career, Management
